FPC Lenoir Is No More

Last weekend we made a quick trip to NC for the FPC Lenoir exit vote from the PCUSA.  We stopped in Nashville on our way down, spent two nights back in NC then drove home Monday.  It was a whirlwind trip and a lot of fun.  We got to see our old friends and the kids especially got to see their best friends from our time there.  We went swimming Saturday after we got into Lenoir so I saw several people from my old work.  It seems like nothing is changing there for now.

Anyway, on our way down we stopped in Metropolis and there were fun cutout things at the gas station.  We were going to try and see Superman, but didn't want to waste anymore time.  We had wasted some time trying to get out of STL and managed a great close-up view of the arch. 

Here is one of the kids after playing at the pool all afternoon. A has become quite the helping big sister. She quite bossy as well, so hopefully that will tone down some. We aren't holding our breath on that though.  At least we know she'll be the one leading people off the cliff, not following people off the cliff.  :) At least we can hope.

Sunday morning everyone was quite surprised to see us (not sure why as we knew there was a vote happening that night). The kids played with their friends and did some running around through the area. 

The vote though was quite amazing.  Before the vote there were a couple of people who got up to speak, both "for" staying and "against" staying with PCUSA.  As had been the case throughout the past couple of years, the "for" people were very hardlined and non-negotiating.  They wanted the "against" people to be grace-ful if they lost. Then the vote came back, EXACTLY what was needed. As in, if one vote hadn't been cast, or one vote for the "against" staying went the other direction, the vote would have failed. The people who had talked to everyone about how we needed to be grace-ful immediately walked out of the proceedings.  We then had a couple of other corporation things to take care of before we could truly disband for the night.  It was nice to get some closure on our time in NC.  It is nice knowing that, yes, our vote does count. It was interesting to see the exactness of the vote, but as several people said, "God knew what we needed and gave us exactly that."